Vermont Creamery’s créme fraÎche Credit: Courtesy of Vermont Creamery

On April 11, the national Specialty Food Association announced the winners of its annual sofi Awards. Among the honorees were a handful of Vermont companies, including Vermont Creamery, which took home honors for three of its cheeses; and Mount Mansfield Maple Products, whose maple candy and barrel-aged syrup both received nods. Other winners included Blake Hill Preserves’ cardamom-Meyer lemon marmalade, Runamok Maple’s ginger-infused syrup, and Vermont Amber Organic Toffee’s fennel-seed toffee.

The original print version of this article was headlined “Crumbs: Leftover Food News”

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This article appears in Apr 18-24, 2018.

Hannah Palmer Egan was a Seven Days food writer from 2014-2019. She was a 2017 James Beard Journalism Award finalist for her coverage of Vermont's food and agriculture industries, and received food writing awards from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. She lives in northeast Pennsylvania with her family, where she works in the outdoor lifestyle and adventure tourism industry.